Cory Aquino
University of the Philippines Diliman
Diliman, Quezon City
Research Paper
In
Kasaysayan 1
(Images of Democracy under Corazon Aquino’s Administration)
Submitted by:
Ralph Cedie P. Fabon
BA Philosophy
What are the Images of Democracy seen or manifested in the Corazon Aquino Administration?
“Dictatorship is like a big proud ship-steaming away across the ocean with a great hulk and powerful engines driving it. It’s going fast and strong and looks like nothing could stop it. What happens? Your fine ship strikes something-under the surface. Maybe it’s a mine or a reef, maybe it’s a torpedo or an iceberg. And your wonderful ship sinks! Now take Democracy. It’s like riding on a raft, a rickety raft that was put together in a hurry. We get tossed about on the waves, it’s bad going, and our feet are always wet. But the raft doesn’t sink…It’s the raft that will get to the shore at last.”
This is how democracy is viewed by the businessman. Indeed, democracy is a word that unites and pleases all the people. It also brings hope and peace to a nation. But what does democracy really means?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Democracy means “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” Another meaning of democracy is “a political form of government in which governing power is derived from the people, either by direct referendum (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek: δημοκρατία – (dēmokratía) "rule of the people", which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.
Democracy played a vital role in the Philippines. The
Diliman, Quezon City
Research Paper
In
Kasaysayan 1
(Images of Democracy under Corazon Aquino’s Administration)
Submitted by:
Ralph Cedie P. Fabon
BA Philosophy
What are the Images of Democracy seen or manifested in the Corazon Aquino Administration?
“Dictatorship is like a big proud ship-steaming away across the ocean with a great hulk and powerful engines driving it. It’s going fast and strong and looks like nothing could stop it. What happens? Your fine ship strikes something-under the surface. Maybe it’s a mine or a reef, maybe it’s a torpedo or an iceberg. And your wonderful ship sinks! Now take Democracy. It’s like riding on a raft, a rickety raft that was put together in a hurry. We get tossed about on the waves, it’s bad going, and our feet are always wet. But the raft doesn’t sink…It’s the raft that will get to the shore at last.”
This is how democracy is viewed by the businessman. Indeed, democracy is a word that unites and pleases all the people. It also brings hope and peace to a nation. But what does democracy really means?
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Democracy means “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.” Another meaning of democracy is “a political form of government in which governing power is derived from the people, either by direct referendum (direct democracy) or by means of elected representatives of the people (representative democracy). The term comes from the Greek: δημοκρατία – (dēmokratía) "rule of the people", which was coined from δῆμος (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power", in the middle of the 5th-4th century BC to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens following a popular uprising in 508 BC.
Democracy played a vital role in the Philippines. The
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